LOS ANGELES — You can bring your beach towels and floral headbands, but forget that selfie stick if you’re planning to go to the Coachella or Lollapalooza music festivals.
The devices, which grasp cellphones to allow people to take pictures of themselves farther away from their faces, are banned at this summer’s festiva

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A proposal to prohibit the importing of California wine has withered after an Arkansas lawmaker said he won’t continue to seek retribution over egg regulations.
Republican Rep. Dan Douglas of Bentonville told House members to enjoy California wine while they can on Friday, but told The Associated Pres

CASTAIC – When Kamala Harris, a Democrat, was the newly elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2004, she walked into a firestorm after deciding not to pursue the death penalty for a man accused in the killing of a police officer – drawing attacks from law enforcement leaders and even Sen. Dianne Feinstein, on

It didn’t take long. News of a federal raid in Irvine and other Southern California cities ignited stinging complaints against Chinese companies bringing expectant mothers to give birth on American soil.There oughta be a law, Orange County readers said in calls and letters to the Register.There is. It’s the 14

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — A road leading to spectacular views of California’s Yosemite National Park opened to drivers on Saturday, marking the earliest date for the occasion in at least 20 years.
Glacier Point Road takes drivers to a lookout perched at 3, 214 feet above the valley floor, where visitors can view spectacles suc

CALABASAS — For a couple of days this week, a Southern California hilltop was alive with the sound of — mystery.
Hikers venturing to Topanga Lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains found a battered upright piano, sitting on a graffiti-scrawled concrete slab with a panoramic view over the mountains between Calabasas and the Paci

FRESNO - Fresno’s deputy police chief was among four people arrested on federal drug charges, including conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and heroin, authorities said Thursday.Deputy Police Chief Keith Foster, 51, was arrested for conspiracy to distribute and/or possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, heroin and marij

SACREMENTO – California will alter its 8-year-old ban preventing all registered sex offenders from living near schools or parks, state officials announced Thursday, instead imposing the restriction only on pedophiles and others whose sex crimes involved children.
The state corrections department said it is changing its policy in re

LONG BEACH — A kidnapping that ended with the murder of a 3-week-old baby girl took a more sordid turn when police announced they tied it to a California woman accused of plotting to steal infants and pass them off as her own.
In arresting Giseleangelique Rene D’Milian, 47, and three others Wednesday, police said they cracked

Worries among Californians that local water supply is inadequate have increased 16 percentage points since September 2013, according to a new poll.In 2013, 53 percent of those polled by the Public Policy Institute of California said their local water supply would be very inadequate or somewhat inadequate in the next decade. Today, 69

LOS ANGELES — Recordings that cost Donald Sterling ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers could cost the woman he was dating the fortune in gifts he lavished on her.Snippets of the conversations recorded by V. Stiviano were played Wednesday as a lawyer for Sterling’s wife explained why the former girlfriend should return m

SAN JOSE — A Northern California police officer was shot to death Tuesday after responding to a call about a man threatening to commit suicide.The San Jose Police Department said responding officers were met with gunfire as they approached an apartment building and that a veteran officer was struck and pronounced dead at the sc

LAS VEGAS – Prosecutors have dropped a misdemeanor case stemming from a man’s complaint that Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin slapped him and grabbed his cellphone at a Las Vegas Strip nightclub last October.
Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson said Tuesday that new information obtained since a battery ch

FALLBROOK - Authorities are investigating a woman’s report that she found needles in two apples purchased at a Southern California grocery store.
The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department says the customer discovered a needle after slicing into a Honeycrisp apple she purchased at the Albertsons store in Fallbrook on March 15.

An inmate condemned to death for three murders in Orange County and one in Corona involving convenience store and gas station clerk victims died of natural causes at a prison medical facility Sunday, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation news release.
Teofilo Medina Jr., 70, of Santa Ana had been in hospi